My psychic radar went on red alert, and I quickly duct-taped my bombs to the hull.“They know we’re here.”
“That’s a big ten-four. Three soldiers are heading my way,”Jake replied.
Quinn announced tensely,“Bombs set, returning to base.”
His presence vanished from my mind.
“Bombs set. Returning to base,”Jake said a minute later.
A hatch opened in the hull and four Tai-Kok soldiers in funky transparent spacesuits climbed out. They were all armed with laser rifles.
“Well, hell.” Out of sheer desperation, I instinctively drew on Kaelen’s power and hit the Tai-Kok soldier closest to me with a telekinetic blast. The soldier was flung out into the void.
Kaelen and Zarek were suddenly in my head, and I felt their shock and anger.“Down!”
I pulled myself flat against the hull. Red laser bolts whizzed past me and vaporized the ship’s weapons array.
“Are you under attack?”Uncle Saul asked urgently.
“I am.”With Kaelen’s help I punched out mentally. The shockwave of energy hurled the remaining soldiers into the endless void.
Uncle Saul let out a grunt of pain as Zarek latched onto his mind.“Who?”
“Don’t hurt General Jones, he needs to set his bombs,”I said quickly.
I felt Zarek’s disbelief.“You think to destroy a battle cruiser with these crude explosives?”
“Yes, I’ve destroyed eleven ships with these bombs.”Fire ants boiled across my mind. More Tai-Kok soldiers were coming.
“Set your bomb and go,”Kaelen commanded.
“What about General Jones?”
Zarek snapped.“I will assist the general. Go.”
“Yes, sir.”I pulled a thermite grenade off my belt, pulled the pin and dropped it down the hatch. “Eat that.”
“Are you mad! Go!”Kaelen shouted.
I hit the emergency button on my belt. Poof. I was standing in Uncle Ben’s lab. “Holy shit, that was crazy.”
Quinn yanked me off the platform. “Maybe that mind meld with the Tai-Kok turned you into a traitor. Who has your loyalty? The monsters or humanity. Wait. You’re not quite human, are you?”
Dad spun him around and decked him with one punch. “Lexi isnota traitor.”
Rubbing his jaw, Quinn got slowly to his feet and sneered, “Prove it.”
“I don’t know what crawled up your ass and died but knock it off.” Jake shoved him back. “Lexi has risked her life time and time again to kill the monsters.”
“So she says and now there are more aliens taking an interest in our planet. Nothing good is going to come of it,” Quinn snarled.
Anger, disbelief and hurt filled me. How could he think I would betray my world?
“Incoming traveler. Incoming traveler,”the computerized voice announced.
Uncle Saul appeared on the platform. He swayed and fell to his knees.
“Oh, my, God!” I rushed over to him. “Are you hurt?”
